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Do you ever have one of those days where you're like "FUCK YEAH! I KICK ASS!" ?
Well, I'm having one of those days, and it feels nice. I'm trying not to be too extreme in my feelings, because I know I'm supposed to be working on squashing the wavy lines of my emotions so that the highs aren't so high and lows are so low. But today is a good day, and here is why:
First of all, I met with Susan, my telecom professor who is overseeing the writing of the adaptation script I'm working on, and I was kind of nervous when I went in there because I haven't met with her in almost two months (because of various things, mostly my fault). But after talking frankly with me about where the script stands and what I need to do at this point in order to move forward with it, she sat down with me and said "so what's up with you lately?" After explaining that I've been dealing with depression, yet not coping very well, and I don't feel like myself anymore, yada yada yada... she just told me that I need to take things back into my control instead of letting them control me. Like, taking incompletes in whatever classes I need to so that I don't get too overwhelmed with catching up with everything before the end of the semester. She gave me some other helpful hints and I felt a whole lot better.
Then, she asks me more about what I want to do with film in the future, and I said that I'm interested in writing spec scripts, but also working with a partner to write television pilots as well, and she says "did you know I'm teaching a course next semester on writing a television pilot? You have to apply, and only 15 people get in, but there are about 5 spots open, and basically I'm going to give the team an idea for a television show and it will be up to them to write the first 9 episodes of the pilot season."
I respond with much exclamation and get really super excited about (hopefully!) taking this course next semester. I've always dreamed of getting to a point where I'm working with a team of writers to produce something really creative and fun, and it looks like the opportunity might present itself way sooner than I thought it would!
So after I leave the room I'm all jittery and excited and I go back to my room to prepare for my next meeting.
I met this guy, James, who's the manager for Red Bull for all of the Midwest about the student brand manager position at IU for next year. Basically, one person at each major campus in the U.S. gets this position, where you talk to people about the benefits of Red Bull in your spare time, occassionally carry around a cooler pack with some cans in it to hand out to people in need of energy on campus, tell my boss in Indy about opportunities for the Mobile Energy Team members (what I was this past summer) to come down to IU, and just generally get to be the cool person on campus who hands out free Red Bull.
Unlike my manager in Indy who is really into sponsoring sports, James' main passion is art and film. (Zing!) So he and I get to talkin about different ways we could combine film with Red Bull, like having the company sponsor a film workshop, or sponsoring a film crew to go to Indy this summer to make a documentary on the F1 race, etc. He would even want to be involved in any film projects I do here at Collins, but he's not the kind of guy who wants to shove the product down your throat - he's just interested in it and wants to be involved, which I totally dig.
So, after talking for only about 15 minutes, he tells me that he has one other interview today with some guy that's been referred, but that he's pretty sure that I'm gonna get the job! It was a very casual conversation and he wants me to meet with his boss ASAP.
*SQUEE!*
So yeah, I would get paid $1500 a semester to do work that I kinda do already, and I'll get one of those cylindrical Red Bull coolers for my dorm room and have a constant supply of the drink in there!
hu-freaking-zzah
Well, I'm having one of those days, and it feels nice. I'm trying not to be too extreme in my feelings, because I know I'm supposed to be working on squashing the wavy lines of my emotions so that the highs aren't so high and lows are so low. But today is a good day, and here is why:
First of all, I met with Susan, my telecom professor who is overseeing the writing of the adaptation script I'm working on, and I was kind of nervous when I went in there because I haven't met with her in almost two months (because of various things, mostly my fault). But after talking frankly with me about where the script stands and what I need to do at this point in order to move forward with it, she sat down with me and said "so what's up with you lately?" After explaining that I've been dealing with depression, yet not coping very well, and I don't feel like myself anymore, yada yada yada... she just told me that I need to take things back into my control instead of letting them control me. Like, taking incompletes in whatever classes I need to so that I don't get too overwhelmed with catching up with everything before the end of the semester. She gave me some other helpful hints and I felt a whole lot better.
Then, she asks me more about what I want to do with film in the future, and I said that I'm interested in writing spec scripts, but also working with a partner to write television pilots as well, and she says "did you know I'm teaching a course next semester on writing a television pilot? You have to apply, and only 15 people get in, but there are about 5 spots open, and basically I'm going to give the team an idea for a television show and it will be up to them to write the first 9 episodes of the pilot season."
I respond with much exclamation and get really super excited about (hopefully!) taking this course next semester. I've always dreamed of getting to a point where I'm working with a team of writers to produce something really creative and fun, and it looks like the opportunity might present itself way sooner than I thought it would!
So after I leave the room I'm all jittery and excited and I go back to my room to prepare for my next meeting.
I met this guy, James, who's the manager for Red Bull for all of the Midwest about the student brand manager position at IU for next year. Basically, one person at each major campus in the U.S. gets this position, where you talk to people about the benefits of Red Bull in your spare time, occassionally carry around a cooler pack with some cans in it to hand out to people in need of energy on campus, tell my boss in Indy about opportunities for the Mobile Energy Team members (what I was this past summer) to come down to IU, and just generally get to be the cool person on campus who hands out free Red Bull.
Unlike my manager in Indy who is really into sponsoring sports, James' main passion is art and film. (Zing!) So he and I get to talkin about different ways we could combine film with Red Bull, like having the company sponsor a film workshop, or sponsoring a film crew to go to Indy this summer to make a documentary on the F1 race, etc. He would even want to be involved in any film projects I do here at Collins, but he's not the kind of guy who wants to shove the product down your throat - he's just interested in it and wants to be involved, which I totally dig.
So, after talking for only about 15 minutes, he tells me that he has one other interview today with some guy that's been referred, but that he's pretty sure that I'm gonna get the job! It was a very casual conversation and he wants me to meet with his boss ASAP.
*SQUEE!*
So yeah, I would get paid $1500 a semester to do work that I kinda do already, and I'll get one of those cylindrical Red Bull coolers for my dorm room and have a constant supply of the drink in there!
hu-freaking-zzah